Awards and Achievements

Additions to this page are ongoing.

Current Students

Maryam Athari

• 2020 Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art
• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Jessy Bell

• 2019 Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architectural Writing

Antawan Byrd

• Curator for 2019 Lagos Biennial
• Frederick Douglas Institute for African and African-American Studies Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Rochester, 2016-17
• CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2014-15
• Mary and Leigh Block Museum Graduate Fellowship, 2014-15
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014

Olivia Dill

• Huntington Library Summer institute in History of Science and Medicine, 2019-20
• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Caitlin DiMartino

• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2019-20
• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Anna Dumont

• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Venice and the Veneto Research Grant, 2019-20

Sarah Dwider

• Equality Development and Globalization Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2019-20
• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Sarah Estrela

• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2018-19

Douglas Gabriel

• Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2016-17
• 2019-2020 Soon Young Kim Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute at Harvard

Laurel Garber

• Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship, 2019-20

Jessica Hough

• COSI Internship, 2019-20
• Mellon Cluster Fellowship in Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2019-20

Benjamin Jones

• SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2019

Adri Kacsor

• SSRC IDRF, 2019-20
• Getty Library Research Grant for September 3-10, 2019
• CLIR International Dissertation Fellow, 2019

Özge Karagöz

• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Tamar Kharatishvili

• 2019 Summer Insitute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) at Harvard
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2017-18

Brian Leahy

• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2019-20

Jacob Leveton

• COSI Curatorial Fellowship, 2019-20
• Yale Center for British Art Visiting Scholar, 2016-17
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2013-14

Thomas Love

• Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, 2019-20
• DAAD Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists, 2019-20
• DAAD Research Grant-Germany, 2018
• Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2018

Scott Miller

• Mellon COSI Curatorial Research Fellow, 2018-19
• Chateaubriand HSS Fellowship, 8 months, 2016-17
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014

• Huntington Library Summer institute in History of Science and Medicine, 2019-20

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Rijksmuseum, 2019-20
• Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2019-20
• Rubenianum Research Fellowship, Belgian American Education Foundation, 2019-20

• Visiting Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2019-20
• Graduate Research Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern University, 2019-20
• Sharon Abramson Research Grant for the Study of the Holocaust, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern, 2019

• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2019-20
• Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2018-19
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2016-17

McKenzie Stupica

• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Kate Tahk

• CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2014-15
• American Councils Title VIII Combination Research and Language Training Fellowship, 2014
• CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2013-14

• The Medici Archive Project Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, 2019-20
• Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award, 2016-17
• Mellon COSI Internship at the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015-16

• Equality Development and Globalization Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2019-20
• Shanley Travel Fellowship, 2019-20

Recent Grads

Elizabeth Benjamin

• Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship 2013-15
• Bourse Jeanne Marandon, 2011-12
• Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2011-12
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011-12
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2009
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2008-09

Emilie Boone

• CIC-Smithsonian Institute Predoctoral Fellowship, 2012-14
• Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency, 2014
• Marcus Garvey Foundation Jean Harvey Slappy Research Fellowship, 2012-13
• Luce Dissertation Research Award, 2011-12
• Capitol Fellowship Program Grant, 2010

Alison Boyd

• Max Planck Institute Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2016-17
• Max Planck Institut Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 2014-15
• Winterthur Fellowship, 2014
• Henry Luce Foundation American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2011-12

Jill Bugajski

• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2012-13
• Smithsonian Institute Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-13
• Dissertation Fellow, Center for the United States and the Cold War, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University, 2012-13
• Dissertation Fellow, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2012
• Northwestern University Luce Dissertation Research Grant, 2012
• Research Fellow, The Wolfsonian at Florida International University, 2012
• Swann Foundation Fellow, The Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon, Library of Congress, 2012
• Getty Research Institute, Library Research Grant, 2009 
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2008
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2008
• Northwestern Summer Foreign Language Grant, 2007 

Zirwat Chowdhury

• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library, 2010
• IHR Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 2009-10
• Junior Fellowship at the Mellon Centre, 2009-10
• Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 2009-10

Emma Chubb

• Camargo Foundation Fellowship, 2014-15
• Winterthur Research Fellowship, 2014-15
• American Institute for Maghrib Studies, 2013-14
• Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2012-13
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2012
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011-12
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2011
• Buffett Center Crown Family Middle East Research Travel Award, 2011
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010

Vanessa Crosby

• Getty Research Institute Predoctoral Fellowship

Nancy DaSilva

• Venture for America Fellowship, 2013-14

Grace Deveney

• Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2014-15
• Eliza Dangler Curatorial Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago, 2013

Claire Dillon

• George Mitchell Scholar

Ashley Dunn

• Fellowship to attend the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, Summer 2014
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2013-14
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2013; 2012
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2011-12

Alison Fisher

• Gilbert Chinard Research Fellowship, Institut Francais d'Amerique, 2009
• Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2007-08
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2006
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2004-05

Faye Gleisser

• CIC-Smithsonian Institute Fellowship, 2014-15
• Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellowship at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 2014-15
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2014-15
• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Northwestern Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching, 2014-15; 2013-14
• Smithsonian Institute Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-13
• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2013
• Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Grant, 2012-13
• Northwestern Buffett Center Summer Research Grant, 2012
• Luce Summer Travel Grant, 2011
• Gulnar-Bosch Travel Assistance Award, South Eastern College Art Conference, 2011
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010

Stephanie Glickman

• Huntington Library Short-term Award, 2014-15
• Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship (Universiteit Leiden), 2012-13
• SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2012-13
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2013
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010

James Glisson

• John H. Daniels Fellowships, 2009-10

Brynn Hatton

• Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2013-15
• Buffett Center Graduate Student Conference Travel Award, 2013
• U.S. Dept. of Education Foreign Language Area Fellowship, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2012
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2012
• Schiff Foundation Fellowship for Critical Architecture Writing, Art Institute of Chicago, 2011
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2011
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011

Tera Lee Hedrick

• American Research Center in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2013-14
• Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations Junior Residential Fellowship, 2010-11
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010

Ka Ming Kevin Lam

• Li Fellow in Chinese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014-15
• Marilyn A. Papp Graduate Scholarship Trust Fellowship, 2014-15
• Cleveland Museum of Art Curatorial Fellowship, 2013-14
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2010
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010

Min Kyung Lee

• Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Research Fellowship, 2010-11

Jacob Lewis

• Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship, 2010-11
• Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellowship, 2009-10

Nancy Lim

• Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Asian Art Curatorial Fellow, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2009-11
• French Interdisciplinary Group Travel and Short-term Research Grant, 2008
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2008
• Helena Rubenstein Summer Internship at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007

Angelina Lucento

• IIE Graduate Fellowship for International Study, 2010-11
• Fulbright IIE Research Grant, 2010-11
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2008-09
• BCICS Grant for Summer Dissertation Proposal Research, 2008
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2008
• Paris Program in Critical Theory

C.C. McKee

• 2018 Professional Development Fellowship from College Arts Association
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2015-16

Nicholas Miller

• Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012-14

Aisha Motlani

•  2020-21 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship
• American Association of University Women American Dissertation Fellowship, 2018-19

John Murphy

• Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art, 2014-15
• Winterthur Research Fellowship, 2014
• Block Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, 2012-13

Catherine Olien

• Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship, 2016-17
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation History of Art Institutional Fellowship, 2015-16
• DAAD Research Grant, 2014-15
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014
• TGS Graduate Research Grant, 2013

Elizabeth Oliver

• Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2013-14
• Huntington Library Residential Fellowship, 2013
• American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Fellow, 2012-13
• Fulbright-Nehru Grant to India, 2012-13
• L'École Normale Supérieure Academic Year Exchange Fellowship, 2011-12
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2011
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2011
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, Summer 2010

• Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2018-20
• Mellon COSI Curatorial Research Fellow, 2016-17
• Fulbright Research Grant to Germany, 2015-16
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2014

Erin Reitz

• Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2013-14
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Rory Alison Sykes

• CLIR Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, 2015-16
• SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2015-16
• Fulbright (IIE) US Student Award

Laura Veneskey

• Kress Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 2010-11
• Max Planck Institute Doctorial Fellowship, 2010-11

Maureen Warren

• Pittsburg Foundation Walter Read Hovey Memorial Fellowship, 2014
• Universiteit Leiden Scaliger Fellowship, 2014
• Kress Foundation Fellowship in the History of Art at a Foreign Institution, Kunsthistorisch Instituut der Rijksuniversiteit, Leiden, 2011-13
• National Committee for the History of Art Fellowship to attend the International Congress of the History of Art in Nuremberg, Germany, 2012
• Northwestern Graduate Research Grant, 2012
• Fulbright Research Grant to The Netherlands, 2011-12
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2011
• Shanley Summer Travel Grant, 2009; 2008  

Lily Woodruff

• Chateaubriand Fellowship, 2009-10

Xiao Yang

• Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories Research Fellowship, 2014-15
• Barbara Smith Shanley Graduate Travel Fellowship, 2012
• Research Grant for Chinese Art History Project, University of Heidelberg, 2012
• Northwestern Summer Language Grant, 2010